Amateur Sports
Megan/Nicole In Gold Final
Ana Patricia Silva and Eduarda Lisboa overcame a four-point deficit in the third and deciding set Tuesday evening to capture the women’s Beach Volleyball Gold medal at the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympics Games over the McNamara twins of Canada.
After losing the first set 21-17 to Megan and Nicole McNamara, Ana Patricia and Eduarda stormed back to win the second set 21-13 over the Canadians.
Both teams competed until the end and Delta’s twin’s came out just short as Ana Patricia and Eduarda pulled off the win by a narrow score of 16-14 that took 42-minute’s to play.
Ana Patricia is the tallest women’s Beach Volleyball player in the Youth Olympic Games at 6’4” and in the end she was speechless only saying “I have no words to describe how happy we are as we did our best and we brought home the gold.”
Megan McNamara told the media “We are still very happy and they are a very good team and our goal was to win a medal, and it’s amazing we were able to do that.
She continued “We are happy to be here as it was an awesome experience to be here, and the medal makes it even better as all our hard work paid off.”
The Bronze match saw the German team of Arnholdt and Schneider score a 2-0 (21-14 and 27-25) win in 37 minutes over Makroguzova and Rudykh.
This was their second-straight youth medal as the pair finished second in the FIVB U19 world championships in Portugal after losing the finale to Eduarda and Andressa.
Points to Ponder
• The men’s semi-final and medal matches will be played Wednesday during the final day of Beach Volleyball competition for the Nanjing 2014 Olympic Games at the 2,000-seat Beach Volleyball venue at the Nanjing Sports Park Complex.
• Pool play matches for both 36-team men and 36-team women competition were played August 17, 18, 19, 21 and 22.
• The 24-team single-elimination bracketed competition for both gender were played August 24 and 25.
• More than 3,300 tons of sand was used to build the four competition and two warm-up courts at the Beach Volleyball venue at the Nanjing Sports Park Complex.
The sand is from HainanIsland in southeastern China, the same place where the materials came from to build the court33s at the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games.
Women’s Youth Olympic Games Beach Volleyball Result
Tuesday’s Semi-final Results
• Megan McNamara/Nicole McNamara, Canada def. Lisa Arnholdt/Sarah Schneider, Germany, 2-0 (21-18 and 21-18, 33)
• Ana Patricia Silva/Eduarda Lisboa, Brazil def. Nadezda Makroguzova/Daria Rudykh, Russia, 2-0 (21-18 and 21-19, 38)
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